Wink to the Cartoon?
I doubt their meant to be the same character, but in the episode of the Cartoon series from the 90s, where Doc and Marty go back in time to the civil war to rescue Verne, the Tannen in that episode was named Beauregard Tannen. I wonder if his character was meant to be a small *wink* to fans who watched the cartoon series.
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Yeah same here, and I never watched the cartoon series.
Then again, Bob Gale says this isn't canon either. Personally, with all due respect to awesome Bob, I don't really see the point of that. It's kind of like how there's actually two Star Wars universes, one that just contains the movies and one that contains everything. If the latter has the same stuff as the first one AND more, then why have two universes? It's the same thing here. In my head at least, this IS BttF 4.
IMO, I think the game is a little too cartoon-y to really be considered canon. I mean, where does Marty carry his extensive inventory when walking around?
Well, where does Max keep his inventory?
Granted, Marty's continuous inventory is fairly small. Things like the tire iron and hoverboard are limited to the scenes you find them in.
Where do any video game characters keep their respective extensive inventories? I mean, just look at Link from The Legend of Zelda.
http://www.webcitation.org/5vIJAusGZ
Actually, this one says it better.
Psh, I played a Point and click series where the hero has put a ladder, a tall metal pole, and a plank taller than he is in his pants.
As the narrator says, he must have plenty of room in there.
A series I hope to see Telltale revive after King's Quest!
Who cares what other games do. This is essentially a continuation of a movie series that grounded its characters and situations in realism, even though it was sci-fi. And they turned it into a goofy cartoon.
It's a credit to Telltale that they brought him in at all. Looking at past adaptations of Universal properties, it's obvious that they are (or were) not particularly concerned with staying true to the source material.
I'd put it down to "writer's pride" that, despite his involvement, he doesn't want to acknowledge the game as canon. It leaves the (albeit unlikely) option open for sequels that don't have to incorporate or even acknowledge the game's story.
I think it would be interesting to have some other gaming companies tackle BTTF. They wouldn't be able to include anything from Telltale games, due to copyright restrictions.
Because later star-wars films and tv shows dont have to obay everything in the expanded universe cannon.
Cannon flows from films>>other mediums, but not visa-versa if you like.
That said, Lucas did include some expanded universe stuff in the prequals, but he got to pick-and-choose stuff, rather then needing to obay it all.
(even if that was possible, with about a bazzlion books, how could he hope to even have read them all ? :P)
Or atleast in the BTS stuff on the bluray.
Beaurguard sounded familar to me atleast and I only know the films, so did Arthur Mcfly; fairly sure in one of the films George mentions his fathers name or mentioned martys grandfathers name
Nope neither were mentioned.
The only tannens or mcfly's who are mentioned but not seen in the trilogy are gertrude tannen (Biffs grandmother) and the 'other' Martin McFly.